2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

Idea at Fish.com:


With all of this in mind, here is the three-way trade we believe would be beneficial to all parties involved:

Mavs receive: Buddy Hield, Richaun Holmes

Knicks receive: Jalen Brunson

Kings receive: Tim Hardaway Jr., Maxi Kleber, Mitchell Robinson and the Knicks' 2023 first-round pick acquired from the Mavs in the Kristaps Porzingis trade

Then, if the Mavs end up not thinking they won't end up with Goran Dragic on the buyout market for whatever reason, they could put their TPE (traded player exception) to use by adding more secondary playmaking and bench scoring:

Mavs receive: Kemba Walker


Knicks receive: Mavs' $10.9 TPE and protected future second-round pick



I’m not traditionally a Hield fan, but I like that you are shortening the window for this position to two years instead of THJ’s longer deal.  The article mentions Hield lives in Dallas in the off-season.  The thing I like about Holmes is he can anchor the C position on nights KP is out much better than Powell or Maxi.  I think Holmes is mobile enough to play alongside KP.  I would probably keep the proposed NY 2023 and give Sacramento our 2022 pick instead.

This feels a little light.  If Hield and THJ are a wash, then this is JB and Maxi for Holmes and you are helping NY offload Kemba’s money in 2022-23.  Seems like Dallas would be owed something more.

I could not think of a trade that more screams "we fucked up" last offseason.  We could have let THJ go and signed Holmes ourselves.  We would have had roughly 20 mil in cap left and could have probably sent a small asset to take on that terrible Hield contract.  Instead we are sending out Brunson and Maxi for the same end result.

This trade is also doubling down on all the mistakes we made in the offseason.  we have a coach that wants to focus on defense and ball movement, so lets make our big free agency get a guy who does not move the ball or play defense.  Now we want to cash in our only assets for another player that does not move the ball and plays even worse defense than THJ (seriously, he is terrible).  On top of that we are trading our only quality playmaker outside of Luka for the broken down Kemba (who is also a worse defender than Brunson).  I guess we are adding defense by bringing in Holmes, but that is counteracted by his questionable fit with KP and the fact that we are sending out our best defensive player.

On top of all of that, if we are going to do a three way trade that involves our 23 pick going somewhere else, we should swap it for our unprotected 22.  That way we actually have access to our picks way sooner than otherwise.